Solar leads at 10.9 GW but fading; heavy net imports of ~28.6 GW fill a wide generation-consumption gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 34%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 20%
61%
Renewable share
2.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.9 GW
Solar
32.0 GW
Total generation
-28.7 GW
Net import
129.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
77.0% / 219.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
273
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 10.9 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels catching the last orange-red light of dusk. Brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a darkening sky. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a cluster of medium-height industrial biomass plants with wood-chip conveyors and modest chimneys emitting thin pale smoke, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 3.8 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer, centre-left. Wind onshore 2.6 GW is shown as a modest line of five three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the mid-background, blades barely turning in light wind. Hard coal 2.1 GW appears as a single coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a rectangular stack, near the left edge. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and spillway visible in a valley in the far background. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is suggested by two tiny turbines on the distant horizon line. The sky is dusk at 18:00 in late April: the lower horizon glows deep orange-red, fading upward through salmon to slate blue and darkening navy above, with 77% cloud cover as heavy stratocumulus layers lit from below in copper and rust tones, creating an oppressive, weighty atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. The landscape is spring in central Germany — fresh green deciduous trees with new leaves, meadow grass, rolling terrain at about 16°C. Thick high-voltage transmission lines on steel lattice pylons stretch prominently across the entire scene from left to right, visually emphasising the massive import flows. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich impasto brushwork visible, warm and cool tones in dramatic contrast, luminous atmospheric haze around the cooling towers, every turbine nacelle and PV cell edge painted with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.